The Industrial AI Blog
The media specialised in AI applied to industry: maintenance, quality, inspection and asset integrity. In-depth articles and free tools, no account needed.
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Software and data
Industrial AI: What It Really Is, and What It Changes on the Plant Floor
Industrial AI without the jargon: use cases by function and by sector, limits, costs, financing and a roadmap to get started in your plant.
Industrial inspection
AI in non-destructive testing: what AI adds to NDT
What artificial intelligence really adds to non-destructive testing: assisted defect detection on images, structured results, trending, and its honest limits.
Software and data
Should you build your AI, buy it, or repurpose a consumer tool?
Build, buy or repurpose a consumer tool: the three routes to AI on the factory floor, the criteria that actually decide, and where to start.
Software and data
Spreadsheet or dedicated software to track inspections?
Is a spreadsheet enough to track industrial inspections? When Excel is genuinely fine, the five points where it breaks, and how to migrate without a big-bang.
The field toolbox
- Corrosion ratemm/yr
- MTBF · MTTR · uptimereliability
- Thickness logtrend
- Inspection intervaldue date
- Report templateCMMS
- Unit convertermm · psi
- Lost hoursROI
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Safety and environment
AI and workplace safety: spotting risk without surveilling people
AI can genuinely help workplace safety, if it reads the signals you already ignore instead of filming your teams. Where the line sits, legally and humanly.
Quality and compliance
Preparing for an IFS Food audit with AI, without losing weeks
Preparing for an IFS Food audit without losing weeks: what the auditor demands, where the evidence hides, and what AI assembles for you, without deciding.
Skills and transformation
Freelance industrial AI consultant: how to choose the best
How to choose the best freelance industrial AI consultant: the profiles compared, the criteria that matter, and how to spot the one who ships a tool.
Quality and compliance
Preparing for a quality audit without losing two weeks: the role of AI
Gathering evidence for a quality audit takes days. How AI assembles the dossier by semantic search, without carrying the responsibility in your place.
Quality and compliance
Why the same nonconformities keep coming back, and what AI changes
Why the same nonconformities keep coming back despite 8D and CAPA, and how AI surfaces the recurrences that case-by-case handling never sees.
Engineering and projects
Digital twins in industry: what they really deliver, and what they cost
A digital twin is not a 3D model. What it really delivers in industry, the role of the AI that exploits it, and the true cost before you commit.
AI and maintenance
AI data leaks: the risk comes from your people and your contractors
Data leaks through AI do not come from the AI itself but from the people and third parties who use it: shadow AI, contractors and what the AI Act now requires.
Quality and compliance
Quantifying what poor quality really costs you, to defend a budget
Scrap, rework, returns and complaints, scattered and never added up. How to aggregate the real cost of poor quality with AI to defend a budget.
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